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An essay as a foreword for Tom Holland’s Dominion

On Christianity An essay as a foreword for Tom Holland’s Dominion Nassim Nicholas Taleb 14 min read · Aug 25, 2022 -- 21 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size By a mechanism dubbed the retrospective distortion, we look at history using the rear view mirror and flow values retroactively. So one would be naturally inclined to believe that the ancients, particularly the Greco-Romans, would seem like us, share the same wisdom, preferences, values, concerns, fears, hopes, and outlook, except, of course, without the iPhone, Twitter, and the Japanese automated toilet seat. But,

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